In April 2011 I was invited to Spain to observe how their academies are run and how they develop their players. I saw a couple of academy games and also saw a Liga B 1st team game between Real Valladolid and Rayo Vallecano.

This gave me the opportunity to observe top professional fitness coach Fernando Gaspar take the team for pre-match warm-up.

Fernando is currently Real Valladolid CF 1st team fitness coach. Before this he was at Real Madrid, Racing Santander and Benfica.

Using Tactics Manager Software I've created a step-by-step observation of Coach Fernando Gaspar's Warm-Up Session -- You can view 2 video clips and download the Session in PDF format below.

Fernando was previously the 1st team fitness coach for Real Madrid, responsible for the conditioning of players like Ronaldo, Raul and David Beckham.
He was also the 1st team fitness coach for Racing Santander and Benfica.